Google has rolled out a YouTube speed-tester that tells you how your ISP stacks up against other ISPs in your town and country, to “give you the ability to compare your speed numbers with other users in your region.”
Translation: Google is giving you the ammo you need to fight back if your ISP sucks, or if it is twiddling the knobs to discriminate against Google. It’s a brilliant piece of pro-Net Neutrality judo, and I can only hope that they follow it up by figuring out tools that let users speed test all kinds of services and protocols so that we can get a picture of how ISPs are messing with us.
Via boingboing
Check out your YouTube Speed History
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Either my computer is worse than I thought, or…no wait, that’s it. My comp is running on a little less than 1000 kbps
Good grief. I thought my YouTube experience was sucky. My ISP (Comcast) is slightly faster than AT&T, although in general, my locality sucks even worse, on average. Although what I really don’t like is how my graph spikes. It goes super high, then it goes super low, lower than everything else! One has to wonder about why I run so hot and cold.
I’m wondering if this is by public IP or by tracking cookie? :/
That was a quick test. I fired up a portable Firefox I hadn’t run in awhile. It’s by tracking cookie. I was maxxed out on bandwidth, although I had nothing to show on the graph. Go figure.
The interesting thing, to me, is that I see at least 3 dips happening simultaneously across the board. I wonder what happened on those dates.
Actually Geko, it tells you that on its FAQ. Those dips are on the weekends when more people are online, which clogs the tubes.
I wonder why mine is so high. I’m way above everyone else.